•Monday i.z.
Tuefday 13.
. At nine o’clock in the morning of the 13 th, the longitude
was obferved as follows, viz.
Self - - ift fet
Ditto - - 2d fet
Mr. Wales rft fet
Mr. Wales ad fet
Mr. Clerke
Mr. Gilbert
Mean - -
I39° 47' 15"
X40 7 30
141 aa 15
140 10 o
140 56 45
140 2 o
140 24 174 Weft.
This differed from my reckoning only a°4, The next morn-
ing, in the latitude of 43° 3 * longitude i 3:9° 20’ Well, we
had feveral lunar obfervations, which were confonant to-
thole made the day before, allowing for the fttip‘s run in
the time. In the afternoon, we had, for a few hours,, variable
light airs next to a calm; after which we got a wind
from the N.-E., blowing frelh and in fqualls, attended with
dark gloomy weather, andfome rain.
Wednef. .4. We ftretched to the S. E. till fivtj o’clock in the afternoon
on the 14th , at which time, being in the latitude of 430 15',,
longitude 1370 39' Weft, we tacked and flood to the North
under our courfes ; having a very hard gale with heavy
Thurfday i j . fqualls, attended with rain, till near noon the next day,
when it ended in a calm. At this time we were in the latitude
of 42® 39', longitude 1370 58' Weft. In the evening, the-
calm was fucceeded by a breeze from S. W., which foon
after increafed to a frelh gale ; and fixing at S. S. W., with
it we fleered N. E. 4 E. In the latitude of 41° 25', longitude-
1350 J8' Weft; we faw floating in the fea a billet of wood,
which feemed to be covered with barnacles; fo that there-
was no judging, how long it might have been there, or from
whence or how far it had come.
We
We continued to fleer N. E. 4. E., before a very ftrong gale
which blew in fqualls, attended with Ihowers of rain and
hail, and a very high fea from the fame quarter, till noon,
on the 17th. Being then in the latitude of 39° 44', longitude
i33° 32' Weft, which was a degree and a half farther Eaft
than I had intended to run ; nearly in the middle between
my track to the North in 1769, and the return to the South
in the fame year (as will appear by the chart), and feeing
no figns of land, I fleered North-eafterly, with a view of exploring
that part of the fea lying between the two tracks
juft mentioned, down as low as the latitude Of 27°, a fpace
that had not been vifited by any preceding navigator that I
knew of.
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Thurlflay 15.
Saturday 17.
On the 19th, being in the latitude of 36° 34', longitude 133P Monda ,
7 Weft, we fleered N. 4 Weft, having ftill the advantage of a
hard gale at South, which the next day veered to S. E. and E., Tuefday to.
blew hard and by fqualls, attended with rain and thick hazy
weather. This continued till the evening of the gift, when Wednef, ZI.
the gale abated, the weather cleared up, and the wind
backed to the S. and S. E.
We were now in the latitude of 320 30', longitude 1330 40'
Weft; from this fituation we fleered N. N. W., till noon the
next day, when we fleered a point more to the Weft; being Tho.fday 2a.
at this time in the latitude of 310 6', longitude 134° 12' Weft,
The weather was now fo warm, that it was neceffary to put
on lighter clothes: the mercury in the thermometer at noon
rofe to 63. It had never been lower than 46, and feldom
higher than 54, at the fame time of the day, fince we left
New Zealand.
This day was remarkable by our not feeing a Angle bird.
Not one had paffed, fince we left the land, without feeing
* fome